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Back at the end of last year, oh so many weeks ago, I listed my ten favorite CD’s of the year but also noted that I hadn’t had a chance to hear the new Blitzen Trapper CD Furr about which I had heard many good things.
Furr easily stands out as one of the best from 2008. In feel it reminds me a lot of a folksier version of The Minus 5′s Down With Wilco and it’s quite a change from BT’s 2007 Wild Mountain Nation which was, to put it politely, a mess with some great songs scattered amongst the rubble.
Furr is highly recommended.
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This “artist” makes me wonder why so many people who have an excellent, well developed sense of humor (& many other good qualities) so often enjoy horrid, wimpy, acoustic, limp, inhoffensive & humorless tunes, lyrics & performers.
No, really. I’ve noticed this phenomenon in other settings & contexts, even before the Intermess.
Yes, I’m hoffended. Why do you ask?
Thanks for the rec … I’ve got a 4-hr road trip today, this will be a great addition.
Really? By far, I preferred the rubble of Wild Mountain Nation. It seemed like they were going to go further into gnarled and angular, but instead came up with more polite folk-rock.
The Fleet Foxes do nothing for me either. Now i gotta dig up your Top Ten, as I’ve already forgotten it. Was the latest Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy on there?
Over-earnest and hoffensive music poseurs aside — great, great recommendation, TBogg. Thanks.
Tboggs taste in music is a little twangier than mine. Anyway, I’m only here for the snark, so I’m usually not hoffended.
This Blitzen Trapper album sounds like a cross between Petty on ‘ludes and a cleaned up Dylan. But what do I know from music?